While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
JAMES JOYCEOne great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Love loves to love love.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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